Comparisons of Two Approaches for Geotechnical Model Calibration with Scarce Data

Table 5

Summary of computed means and COVs of and at using different calibration approaches and bias estimation approaches.

Bias statistics	by default FHWA		by calibrated FHWA, PDC		by calibrated FHWA, RMSE
	Mean (kN)	COV	Mean (kN)	COV	Mean (kN)	COV
By sample	32.21	0.700	33.39	0.478	35.21	0.500
By MLE	33.11	0.945	33.45	0.457	35.19	0.464